M. William Phelps

Clara lost herself in writing and playing the underworld.

Still, how well did she know these three, Mike, Katie, and Kyle?

I couldn't help but think of Clara and how she'd lost her mother to cancer and now her father so violently.

She was suddenly parentless, unmoored yet again.

Mike and Katie did not seem capable of such a gruesome murder.

The couple came across, honestly, as stoner types who played fantasy games and could not likely plan a Scooby-Doo caper, better yet, a brutal crime like the one that took place.

But never judge a book as they say.

With many searches, you never know what will turn up until you look.

it being a bloodied samurai sword.

The exact type of weapon the coroner suggested caused the savage fatal wounds found on Dr. Schwartz's body.

And forensics would soon confirm with DNA and blood evidence that this weapon was

Next time on Fatal Fantasy...

As those involved start talking, they begin to describe a group of role-playing gamers, the bonds they formed, and the secrets they shared.

But it ain't all hobbits and cuddly little elves.

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